Good morning Good morning! Happy Sunday!
This week found me in Seattle, all up in my sister’s ice cream kitchen. In Portland, eating some of the best pasta I’ve had in a great while. In San Francisco taking a bike tour around the Mission District and hanging with my MAJ Tracy. And… in Los Angeles, sleeping in my high school bed. It’s been filling and fun, exhausting, and I can’t seem to leave an Airbnb or city without accidentally leaving something behind. RIP to the forgotten travel shampoo, toothbrush, and computer charger. All of you who have come out to my demos and book signings (I’m especially talking about you ride or die Portland folks)… you’ve filled my heart completely. I thank you and I hope big brunches are in your future.
Here’s some reading for your weekend. You know how we do:
• Here are the things us bakers know well in our hearts and but may not always materialize into words: Why it feels so good to bake.
• Real talk: every month I have a … WAIT please HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS… moment about my body and its lady functions. Raise your hands if you wore pads for way too long.
• Pay attention: Could Michael Flynn turn on Donald Trump?
• It’s not generally my practice to concern myself with what millennial men want, but this is an interesting read: Do Millennial Men Want Stay-At-Home Wives. Ok, so who is writing the companion piece: Do Millennial Women Care What Millennial Men Want Or Can They Just Live Their Lives… ok great.
• Lawn to Earth: in Los Angeles, the landscape of front lawns has changed dramatically. There’s just no water for green green status-grass. Here’s what that change looks like.
• Science says it’s fine / we’re fine. People who talk to their pets, plants, and cars are actually totally normal. Ok follow-up question: What if you talk FOR your pets, plants, and cars?… because I’ve had full on conversations using my voice and my voice for Tron. As I type that out I realize it’s not normal… ok got it.
• A Cozy Kitchen made the Overnight Beignets with Strawberry Powdered Sugar from my book Over Easy! Shutterbean made the Breakfast Sausage Pretzel Rolls! and Smitten Kitchen made Cornbread Waffles!
• The best way to incorporate a vegetable into a cinnamon roll: Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls
• I’m still hopping around the country signing books and it’s really so great to meet all of your who have some out so far! I’ve added a Philly signing to the list! I’ll be at Head House Books in Philadelphia on Sunday April 9th! You’ll find more dates and cities, here!
• If you bought Over Easy on Amazon and have feelings about it- any kind of feelings… you could review the book! Your review would probably be better / more helpful that the woman who gave the book three stars after looking at another reviewer’s screenshots of the book. So… you know… the Internet is great.
• Can I work this dress all Summer 17?
• I bought this book used. It feels like someone put some love into it and I’m saving it as my summer read. As Always, Julia: the letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto.
I hope your Sunday is feel-good!
I see how great you are.
xo Joy
Pictured above is The Women’s Building, San Francisco.
KW
It’s not normal to talk for your cats? When I had three, I talked for all of them. They each had a distinct personality. One was the perfect smart little girl, the second my dysfunctional middle child who swore like a drunken sailor, and the baby sounded like a toddler her entire life.
Andee
It was great seeing you in PDX! I’m going to make those corn bread waffles soon! Bake On Joy. I enjoy following you each week with your blog and recipe post…I promis I will stalk you for years. Lol. Fyi on the dress…I certainly hope not!
Jules
Most importantly-YES!! On that dress ??
joythebaker
:)
Stacy
Loved your exactly right response to the article about millennial men–it is long past time that we stopped caring about any man’s opinion about the way we choose to live our lives. Good grief, it’s 2017. I love my husband, but ultimately I am only responsible for myself, as he is responsible for himself. That’s called being a grownup. Big, fat eye roll to whoever thought that was worthy of print.
ellen
Love, love, love As Always. Great selection…Send us more of your fave reads!!
Donna
About talking for ur animals. My sil and I have certain voices for our dogs. We compared notes and found out we could get a lot more done using THE voice. My husband knows THE voice. I’d say something like, Gypsy says she wants pizza tonight or whatever. We figured out it was as a passive-aggressive way to manipulate our spouses! They can’t turn down their cutie dogs!
Donna
I always look forward to your Sunday posts! That post about periods really made me think. I believe to each their own. No judgments.
Also, that dress is adorable. And best of all: pockets!!
Happy Sunday!
STH
I grew up in California in the ’70s and the water shortages then left a permanent mark on me. People in the west have known forever that water was/would be a problem, but it sure took a big kick in the butt for them to do anything about it. Which still hasn’t happened up here in arid eastern Washington state. I was amazed when I first moved here and realized that I was looking at Weeping Willow trees in people’s yards IN THE DESERT. Our day of reckoning will come here, but I’m happy to see LA is moving in the direction of more sensible gardening practices.
Meghan
No wonder I’ve taken it so personally before when someone hasn’t liked my cooking! Great Sunday post
Mary
Julia and Avis had a very special friendship. A truly lovely book. BTW, I dance with my dogs in addition to talking to them. They have all been very patient with me. Going to Portland in a couple of weeks. Will def check out the pasta.
Robby
As Always, Julia will not disappoint. It might feel like a flashback to the present though. I read it last summer and well, the parallels to our political happenings, were both disconcerting (have we learned nothing?!) and reassuring (things improved).
Cy
I’m older now and also had to have early surgery. So I longer have the monthly “visit ” , but of course can sympathize with both camps. I remember trying to teach my best friend in middle school how to put in a tampon, we were so innocent ?. My mom bought pads, but they were so bulky then, not the nice winged streamlined ones we have now. Through trial and error I figured it our, really for the convenience more than anything else. I returned to pads again, as I got older( and they got smaller). I was diagnosed with fibroids in 2010 ( about 30-40% of all woman can develop fibroids), I was horribly anemic and had to “change” every 45 minutes. I had to use pads, tampons were useless. I finally scheduled surgery and a week before, had to have emergency surgery anyway. Thank god for modern medicine. Anyway, sorry for the long TMI, but I’m sure some of your readers can relate. The point is, no judgment, sometimes both options can be your friend.
Cy
Bought the book. Thanks, love me some Julia. Love the article about talking to “ourselves”. Read several pieces lately, that say people who talk to “themselves ” are smarter. I do think it’s different talking to a live creature, over an inanimate object.( of course I do both) I mean Tron does understand some of what you. I know my Minnie does. She’s like a little kid, she doesn’t always like what I have to say…..
Sorry to have missed you at Omnivore. Love that store. I’m a concierge here in SF and I love my city and there is tons to do here, but where did you eat? Bakeries? b. Patisserie? Dynamo donuts? Smitten Ice Cream? Jane or The Mill ( Josef the baker). We have great bread here, but these two are amazing. Leo’s Oyster Bar for seafood? Bar Crudo is great too. So many! Tell me you ate something great ?Now for these cinnamon rolls and reading more of your post.
Cy
Typo Josey the baker!
Amy
Hi Joy,
Will you be in Brooklyn or Manhattan for your book tour? I hope so!
Chris
We live in the extreme southwest corner of Utah and have had the pleasure of eating at Ava Gene’s when visiting Portland. I’m so glad that you got to go and experience stellar Italian fare. Of course, I’m jealous that you got to go while I stayed in the desert, LOL!